saw a fifty cheer a man up like that one did Charlie, and he thanked me just right—didn't stutter and didn't slop over. I earmarked Charlie for a raise and a better job right there.
Just after that I got mixed up with some work in my private office and I didn't look around again till on toward closing time. Then, right outside my door I met the office manager, and he looked mighty glum, too.
"I was just going to knock on your door," said he.
"Well?" I asked.
"Charlie Chasenberry is eight hundred dollars short in his collections."
"Um—m," I said, without blinking, but I had a gone feeling just the same.
"I had a plain-clothes man here to arrest him this evening, but he didn't come in."
"Looks as if he'd skipped, eh?" I asked.
"I'm afraid so, but I don't know how. He didn't have a dollar this morning, because he tried to overdraw his salary ac-
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